IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 33058 accession number: C.34 & A-1927 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain coffee-pot, transfer-printed in purple, and painted onglaze in yellow, green, brown and blue enamels, and gilt. The pear-shaped coffee-pot has a curved spout and S-scroll handle with scroll thumbpiece, standing on a low footring; the slightly domed cover is surmounted by a conical knob. The coffee pot is decorated on one side with classical ruins, the reverse with two figures crossing a bridge in a landscape dominated by a classical monument, the handle with two gilt trefoils and dots, the spout printed with rocaillerie. object type: Soft-paste porcelain coffee pot, transfer-printed in purple and painted onglaze in polychrome enamels with two scenes of classical ruins. title: coffee pot NOTES ----- type: history note value: unknown before Dr W.S. Hadley (d. 25 December 1927), Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Bequeathed by Dr W.S. Hadley STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/33058 PEOPLE ------------------- figures SUBJECTS ------------------- bridge landscape monument ruins bridge landscape monument ruins TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, transfer-printed in purple, and painted onglaze in yellow, green, brown and blue enamels, and gilt glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1765 - 1770 creation date earliest: 1765 creation date latest: 1770 culture: 18th Century, third quarter culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Worcester Porcelain Factory maker: Vivarès, François DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 20.2 dimension: Width units: cm value: 16.5 CITATIONS -------- Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Ceramics, Catalogue of English Porcelain, Earthenware, Enamels and Glass collected by Charles Schreiber Esq., M.P., and the Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Schreiber, and presented to the Museum in 1884, Volume I, Porcelain Transfer-printed Worcester Porcelain at Manchester City Art Gallery ---